• "Easy to listen to...expert knowledge."• "Thank you! Excellent informative presentation."• "Lots of stuff. Very inspiring."• "Great Content/Info!"• "Valuable Seminar - well worth the time spent here."• "Very informative, great resources, on target."• "Lots of info - very friendly!"• "I learned a lot of online video and a lot of good websites to help me make video without thousands of dollars. Really great!!!"• "Very deep knowledge of video/media. Good speaker. Good at soliciting questions and comments."• "Good, lots of questions allowed. Nice Pace. Great documentation. Lots of student/teacher interaction."• "Learned a lot. Great informative handout - love the websites. Wonderful presentation."• :Good help for my business."• "Very well informed and easy to understand instructions."• "The best workshop I have ever attended at SBA!"

I have to admit that I am totally amazed by how many sites I never heard of that look totally fantastic and cool that are contained in this presentation. Have a look! But be forewarned - it may take you off the path you're on because you will find so many new sites that extend your ability to collaborate and create.

Opinion TV - the folks behind the TV Taxi - have a great deal for you...they'd like to bring TV Taxi to every state in the U.S. and are looking for a partner. The deal is this: you trick out a vehicle with the cameras, mikes, and lights and staff it. Edit the videos and upload to a central site where you can mix and match footage with their audiences. Or not.

In Europe, Mazda is providing TV Taxi with a free vehicle for each country they're in.

When I first gave the original YouTube101 talk at BizTechDay in the fall, I opened the talk Jeopardy style - showing an answer. The answer was 13 hours per minute.

The question was How much video is being uploaded to YouTube?

I now have to revise my talk as YouTube today reports that 20 hours are being uploaded every minute - and they're egging the crowd on to post EVEN MORE - and providing a new tool so you can post video responses more quickly. This from the YouTube site:

May 20, 2009 | Posted by: Ryan Junee

Zoinks! 20 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute!

In mid-2007, six hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. Then it grew to eight hours per minute, then 10, then 13. In January of this year, it became 15 hours of video uploaded every minute, the equivalent of Hollywood releasing over 86,000 new full-length movies into theaters each week.

Now, 20 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and it is a testament to the fact that you've made YouTube your online video home. We couldn't have built this site without your commitment to sharing your thoughts, experiences, and creativity with each other. We have news clips and full-length shows and movies, music videos and how-to content, sports highlights and animation, short films, homegrown videos, and, yes, all the dogs on skateboards you can watch. There's an audience for every type of content on YouTube, and we hope that with all this video, you can find whatever it is you're interested in on the site.

We're still developing new ways to upload videos to YouTube. Today we're launching a feature that allows users to conveniently record a video response immediately after watching a video, making the YouTube experience even more social. When the video you're watching ends, an icon encouraging you to respond will appear in the player. Clicking on the icon will activate your webcam and immediately bring you into the conversation.

So thanks, and let's see if we can get to 24 hours -- a full day's worth of video uploaded every minute.

Monday, May 18, 2009

From today's NYTimes comes the story Social Media Eclipses Email, which shows the dramatic growth in both social media and online video. Time spent on social media sites has now eclipsed the time spent on email sites. This is a sea change in consumer behavior.

In addition, the article goes on to say something equally dramatic:

"Sites with long-form videos (averaging six to eight minutes) are showing much more growth and user time spent online than those with shorter videos."

Friday, May 15, 2009

CLASSIC MARTHA: Martha Stewart is about to try something most magazine publishers have yet to attempt: charging for online videos. Next month, Stewart will begin testing consumers’ appetite to pay for videos, which will come from archives that are not yet available online. The videos can be purchased at marthastewart.com and then downloaded onto a computer, iPod or mobile phone. Pricing has not been set. Stewart said she’s been trying to figure out how the company can charge readers for online content for several years although, for now, the broader digital strategy will continue with an ad-supported online model.

“We’ll see how it goes,” Stewart said, during a conversation with New York Times media columnist David Carr on Thursday that was mainly about celebrities using Twitter. They spoke at the DeSilva + Phillips “The Future of Celebrity Media” conference. Stewart now has more than 600,000 followers on Twitter, although she hasn’t figured out how to get them to also read her blogs. “I think we’ll define it more,” she said, adding she will test Twitter with more specific information on, say, weddings or gardening.

— Amy Wicks

Many companies do have gold mines of how to videos out of sight and out of circulation.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

There's a lot you can do just with titles, as this little spoofy video from my friend Peter Hirshberg shows. Enjoy (and imagine some possibilities of your own). In this case, some great music provides much of the "secret sauce."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

You gotta love this new ad campaign from Jive, makers of Social Business Software (formerly known as "Communities" or "Knowledge Sharing" or "Enterprise 2.0"...it uses some of the great tricks we first saw in the Michael Wetz videos (text lines that change half the sentence, for instance) in a great animation ad. Check it out:

Highlights Of The Report Include:* The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339 percent since 2003.* Time spent on video sites has shot up almost 2,000 percent over the same period.* In the last year alone, unique viewers of online video grew 10 percent, the number of streams grew 41 percent, the streams per user grew 27 percent and the total minutes engaged with online video grew 71 percent.* There are 87 percent more online social media users now than in 2003, with 883 percent more time devoted to those sites.* In the last year alone, time spent on social networking sites has surged 73 percent.* In February, social network usage exceeded Web-based e-mail usage for the first time.

Be sure to read the full report - it's got lots of good graphs and visuals as well as great data.

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Pam is a video consultant and producer who helps businesses use web video for internal and external communications. A digital pioneer since 1992, when she directed the first video made on a computer (Apple's Quicktime 1.0 debut, in the bestselling CD-ROM From Alice to Ocean), she has been evangelizing video for companies large and small (Apple, Wells Fargo and others). Jerry Garcia, UN Sec. Gen Bhoutros Bhoutros Ghali and the Dalai Lama are just a few of her clients. Her passion for helping friends and family make simple personal videos spawned her bestselling 2005 book Create Your Own Digital Movies. Her web video efforts have expanded to internal Enterprise 2.0 projects for Wells Fargo, where the internal video channel she started is the employees' top-rated content. She teaches web video marketing in Oakland at Techliminal.com and in San Francisco for U. C. Berkeley Extension, offering the first university sponsored class in web video marketing. Pam was also featured recently in Fox's Small Business portal on her five tips for web video marketing success.